Question : Which state’s 225 hectare land recently(November 2021) handed over for first LIGO project in India ?
a. Maharashtra
b. Tamil Nadu
c. Andhra Pradesh
d. Telangana
Ans. a.
Related facts —
- The Hingoli revenue department has recently(November 2021) handed over 225 hectare of land in Maharashtra to authorities of the LIGO project for setting up the first such facility in the country.
- Hingoli is situated at the northern part of Marathwada(Hingoli district) in Maharashtra.
- LIGO stands for — Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.
- There are currently a couple of such labs in the US – at Hanford in Washington and Livingston in Louisiana – which study the gravitational waves.
- In 2016, the Indian government had given an ‘in principle’ approval to the LIGO-India mega science proposal for research on gravitational waves.
- The project will provide opportunities to scientists and engineers to dig deeper into the realm of gravitational waves.
- A few years back, scientists had for the first time observed ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, arriving at the earth from a cataclysmic event in the distant universe.